Zach C. Eaton has over 3 years of experience in sales and customer relations. He graduated from Bethany College in 2015 with a Bachelor of Art in Management and a cumulative GPA of 3.3. Currently, Eaton works as a Diamond Consultant at Shane Company in Overland Park, Kansas where he sells over $100,000 in jewelry per month. Previously, he was a Sales Representative for Hague Quality Water and had an internship in the Athletics Department at Bethany College.
Christmas is a big retail event for thousands of businesses throughout the UK - if you're one of them, be inspired with some practical, fun and effective ways to make the most of this Christmas season.
This document discusses ways for nonprofit organizations to be more donor-centric. It suggests budgeting specifically for donor care and onboarding costs, using the right messaging to make donors feel appreciated, and conducting outreach like thank you calls and postcards to new donors. The document provides several specific ideas to improve the donor experience like learning more about new donors' support of other causes and comparing an organization's communications to those of similar nonprofits. The overall message is that being donor-centric requires focusing on donors and the value they receive rather than just time or money.
Send Out Cards allows business owners to send greeting cards to customers to boost revenues, increase customer loyalty, improve retention, and provide referrals. Cards with photos that are personalized get saved and displayed, reminding customers of the business and causing them to spend more and remain loyal customers. Sending cards differentiates a business from the competition and ensures the business is top of mind for customers, who will then refer the business to others. For only $39 per month plus postage, a business can send 33 two-panel cards with photos. A business owner example tells how he sent 30 local businesses cards and was able to sell $4,000 in gift vouchers as a result of the personalized marketing.
This document discusses how sending flowers to clients can benefit a business's marketing efforts. Flowers send positive messages that clients are appreciated and the business is willing to go the extra mile. A floral company, A Lily's Dew Drop, offers a corporate partnership program that makes it easy for businesses to order and send flowers through a simple online form or fax. The program aims to provide great floral arrangements with minimal costs and effort. Interested businesses can contact Andy Miller for more information on implementing the floral gift program.
An Example Fundraiser Letter You Are Able To Copy_Clyde95Schaeffer
The document provides an example fundraising letter that was used to successfully raise funds for renovations to chapel equipment. It includes details about the chapel's location and community involvement. The letter requests £2095 in additional funds needed for repairs to the chapel entrance doors, as £7900 has already been raised through other fundraising efforts. It emphasizes the chapel's value to the local neighborhood and requests the charitable trust consider aiding this project. The document also provides tips for submitting the letter, including using letterhead, ensuring it is signed, including a self-addressed postcard for acknowledgement of receipt, only sending to relevant trusts, and following up after being notified of the funding decision.
The document discusses research into party planning stressors. It found that while most small parties are only moderately stressful, bachelorette parties cause significant stress for women when planning. This is due to concerns about attendance, payments, themes, and venues. The document proposes a concierge party planning service called PartyFly that aims to alleviate these stressful tasks and allow for customization. Market testing will explore customer acquisition costs on Facebook and StumbleUpon. The long-term vision is to expand beyond bachelorettes to other events like showers and birthdays, as well as corporate events.
The document discusses the gift of leadership described as the special ability God gives some members of the body of Christ to understand goals and devise effective plans to accomplish them. It notes this gift involves leading others to remain on task by steering them and delegating specific tasks according to gifts and talents. It also provides additional information on gift giving for various occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, and weddings.
Zach C. Eaton has over 3 years of experience in sales and customer relations. He graduated from Bethany College in 2015 with a Bachelor of Art in Management and a cumulative GPA of 3.3. Currently, Eaton works as a Diamond Consultant at Shane Company in Overland Park, Kansas where he sells over $100,000 in jewelry per month. Previously, he was a Sales Representative for Hague Quality Water and had an internship in the Athletics Department at Bethany College.
Christmas is a big retail event for thousands of businesses throughout the UK - if you're one of them, be inspired with some practical, fun and effective ways to make the most of this Christmas season.
This document discusses ways for nonprofit organizations to be more donor-centric. It suggests budgeting specifically for donor care and onboarding costs, using the right messaging to make donors feel appreciated, and conducting outreach like thank you calls and postcards to new donors. The document provides several specific ideas to improve the donor experience like learning more about new donors' support of other causes and comparing an organization's communications to those of similar nonprofits. The overall message is that being donor-centric requires focusing on donors and the value they receive rather than just time or money.
Send Out Cards allows business owners to send greeting cards to customers to boost revenues, increase customer loyalty, improve retention, and provide referrals. Cards with photos that are personalized get saved and displayed, reminding customers of the business and causing them to spend more and remain loyal customers. Sending cards differentiates a business from the competition and ensures the business is top of mind for customers, who will then refer the business to others. For only $39 per month plus postage, a business can send 33 two-panel cards with photos. A business owner example tells how he sent 30 local businesses cards and was able to sell $4,000 in gift vouchers as a result of the personalized marketing.
This document discusses how sending flowers to clients can benefit a business's marketing efforts. Flowers send positive messages that clients are appreciated and the business is willing to go the extra mile. A floral company, A Lily's Dew Drop, offers a corporate partnership program that makes it easy for businesses to order and send flowers through a simple online form or fax. The program aims to provide great floral arrangements with minimal costs and effort. Interested businesses can contact Andy Miller for more information on implementing the floral gift program.
An Example Fundraiser Letter You Are Able To Copy_Clyde95Schaeffer
The document provides an example fundraising letter that was used to successfully raise funds for renovations to chapel equipment. It includes details about the chapel's location and community involvement. The letter requests £2095 in additional funds needed for repairs to the chapel entrance doors, as £7900 has already been raised through other fundraising efforts. It emphasizes the chapel's value to the local neighborhood and requests the charitable trust consider aiding this project. The document also provides tips for submitting the letter, including using letterhead, ensuring it is signed, including a self-addressed postcard for acknowledgement of receipt, only sending to relevant trusts, and following up after being notified of the funding decision.
The document discusses research into party planning stressors. It found that while most small parties are only moderately stressful, bachelorette parties cause significant stress for women when planning. This is due to concerns about attendance, payments, themes, and venues. The document proposes a concierge party planning service called PartyFly that aims to alleviate these stressful tasks and allow for customization. Market testing will explore customer acquisition costs on Facebook and StumbleUpon. The long-term vision is to expand beyond bachelorettes to other events like showers and birthdays, as well as corporate events.
The document discusses the gift of leadership described as the special ability God gives some members of the body of Christ to understand goals and devise effective plans to accomplish them. It notes this gift involves leading others to remain on task by steering them and delegating specific tasks according to gifts and talents. It also provides additional information on gift giving for various occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, and weddings.
Holiday Marketing Initiatives - The Naughty and Nice ListSogolytics
The document provides tips for businesses on effective holiday marketing strategies that are either "naughty" or "nice". Naughty strategies to avoid include email overloads, tenuous festive links, limiting marketing to Christmas only, and bombarding customers across multiple channels. Nice strategies recommended are themed communications incorporating values, saying thank you with no strings attached, treating staff well, and making data-driven decisions on relevant gifts and promotions. The overall message is that businesses should embrace the festive spirit and avoid naughty tips to ensure a happy return on marketing initiatives.
I discovered this little gem on Slide Share a few years ago and it is still totally relevant. I updated a few slides to add some additional information. Discover how "dating" your client can increase sales for the long term.
This document provides tips for maximizing direct response fundraising at the end of the year. It discusses the importance of individual donors as a funding source and notes that organizations lose donors every month. It recommends engaging current donors to recruit new ones, soliciting internal audiences, and testing list rentals or trades. For lapsed donors, it suggests segmentation and personalized outreach. Specific tactics include regular mailings in November and December, reporting outcomes, analyzing past results, using holiday themes and response techniques, and acknowledging gifts meaningfully. The document concludes by providing contact information for the author.
Increasing the business with promotional giftsZoom4DailyLab
Gifts are loved by one and all. Gifts are a way of expressing gratitude and marketing gifts are given to customer to thank them and most of the customers are more than happy to receive gifts ...
The document provides tips for responding to leads and securing appointments. It recommends introducing yourself clearly with your name, role, and location. It also suggests asking high-impact, open-ended questions to learn how you can potentially help and be a resource for the other person. Finally, it advises spending minimal time setting up appointments and not launching into a sales pitch during the initial call.
This document discusses how to make a business meaningful by focusing on helping others rather than focusing on profits or sales. It emphasizes engaging with customers and hostesses at parties to make them feel special. It suggests asking questions to understand people's motivations for buying products or hosting parties. The goal is to convey that the business is about more than just sales and to share how it can help improve people's lives. Representatives are challenged to do one thing each week to put others first and make their business more meaningful.
Jessica Lin's manager provides a strong recommendation for her employment. The manager states that Jessica has impressed with her attitude and productivity as an assistant manager. She is bright, motivated, a quick learner who can digest large volumes of information and articulate it well with customers. Jessica was also effective in engaging promotions and developing new clients, particularly for large retailers. Her manager commends her willingness to take initiative, lead her team, and take risks to help the business. The manager recommends Jessica without reservation and is confident she will be productive.
This will depend on what type of loan you are taking and from whom you are taking it. If you are taking out a purchase loan, then you wouldn’t likely be able to take any cash out of the transaction.
Ten Slides in Ten Minutes - I Never Know What to Say to YouBill Graham CP.APMP
The document outlines 10 slides from a presentation on capturing the hearts and minds of prospects and clients. Each slide focuses on a different relationship such as business prospects, managers, partners, friends, mentors, parents, and children. For each relationship, the slide identifies key factors to focus on such as understanding needs, adding value, building trust, showing loyalty, and providing support. The overall message is about effectively communicating the value you can provide within different types of relationships.
Men have been offering endowments to ladies. Blessings show love and warmth and can likewise flag appreciation. Foremostly, endowments have likewise been utilized from the beginning of time to show abundance, achievement, and force. Trust me, when you become an extraordinary blessing provider, your status and attractive quality as a sentimental accomplice increment dramatically. The main thing ladies love more than getting a significant blessing is indicating it off to their desirous companions. Giving your life partner a blessing and it develops the glow, trust, love, and closeness in your relationship, and even builds her profound respect for you.
3 Key Elements for the Best Saint Valentine's GiftsHIM-Matchmaking
The idea of Saint Valentine’s is that you show your loved one you care about him or her.
Of course you already do that the other 364 days of the year too, however St. Valentine's offers you the extra opportunity to show your appreciation.
Gift giving is traditionally a big deal for St. Valentine's and your gifts should aim to make your partner feel appreciated and loved.
As a matchmaker and dating expert, I would like to share the 3 Key elements for the best St. Valentine’s day gifts.
Surprise your loved ones by sending their most admired birthday gifts in midnight at their entranceway step is that the smartest thing that you simply will present to them. Giftingdeal Offers midnight delivery of Cakes, Flowers in Delhi,
Gifting is an important part of Indian culture that is used to show love and strengthen relationships during celebrations like birthdays and festivals. However, choosing the perfect gift can be difficult as preferences vary between individuals. Giftingdeal aims to make gift selection easier by providing a wide range of options categorized by occasion, recipient's gender, and relationship to help customers find the most appropriate gift. They also offer a gift voucher option to let recipients select their own present.
This document provides tips and strategies for building an effective email marketing campaign, including growing an email list, generating sales through emails, nurturing customer relationships after sales, and maintaining list hygiene. It discusses techniques like using forms, offers, and social media to expand the email list, segmenting the list for targeted messaging, using scarcity and urgency in sales emails, and turning customers into advocates through ongoing communication. The overall message is that steady, consistent work focusing on one strategy at a time is key to email marketing success.
5 Coronavirus Fundraising Myths and Why They’ll Kill Your FundraisingBloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Andrea Kihlstedt will offer a different view and give you some practical advice on how to use this topsy-turvy time to raise money.
Apresentação sobre Grandes Doações, por Eva Aldrich, da CFRE, realizada durante o Festival ABCR 2017, em São Paulo, entre os dias 17 e 19 de maio de 2017.
This document contains information from a presentation given at "She Said YYC - The Voice of Women & Philanthropy" on November 4, 2015 in Calgary, Alberta. It discusses various topics related to philanthropy including understanding one's relationship with money, different donor profiles, ways to get involved in social change through volunteering, donations, or strategic philanthropy, and factors to consider when making a donation such as governance, leadership, and financials. Contact information is provided for Gena Rotstein to learn more.
Fish Philosophy
It's all about the four practices which we can perform in our daily lives to achieve success and to move towards humanity.
Choose your attitude.
Play.
Make their day.
Be there.
It's a book written by Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul and John Christensen.
The document discusses common emotions experienced in the workplace such as fear, anger, envy, and pride. It defines each emotion and provides strategies for managing them. Fear is an unpleasant feeling of worry about something bad happening. Anger results from wrongdoing and can be turned inward causing depression. Pride refers to an inflated sense of status. Envy is a feeling of discontent from another's advantages. The document advises exposing yourself to fear, taking timeouts for anger, developing humility for pride, and stopping comparisons for envy. It concludes by encouraging awareness of emotions and understanding their sources.
This document discusses managing emotions in organizations. It provides an overview of various theories of emotion including the James-Lange theory, cognitive theories, and affective events theory. It also discusses emotional intelligence, different types of emotions like approach and deterrence emotions, and applications of understanding emotions in areas like decision making, motivation, leadership, and conflict resolution. Managing emotions in organizations is important for creating a healthy organizational climate and allowing for optimal performance.
This document discusses managing emotions at work and provides steps for mastering emotions. It notes that people often feel frustrated with bosses, upset with coworkers, and angry with customers. It recommends recognizing emotions, understanding that thoughts precede emotions, and accepting that changing feelings comes after the fact. Possible solutions include reconsidering harmful beliefs, keeping an emotion journal, talking to supportive friends, engaging in self-education, and seeking counseling. A nine-step process is outlined for managing emotions, thoughts, and behaviors through awareness, acceptance, identification, and goal-setting.
Holiday Marketing Initiatives - The Naughty and Nice ListSogolytics
The document provides tips for businesses on effective holiday marketing strategies that are either "naughty" or "nice". Naughty strategies to avoid include email overloads, tenuous festive links, limiting marketing to Christmas only, and bombarding customers across multiple channels. Nice strategies recommended are themed communications incorporating values, saying thank you with no strings attached, treating staff well, and making data-driven decisions on relevant gifts and promotions. The overall message is that businesses should embrace the festive spirit and avoid naughty tips to ensure a happy return on marketing initiatives.
I discovered this little gem on Slide Share a few years ago and it is still totally relevant. I updated a few slides to add some additional information. Discover how "dating" your client can increase sales for the long term.
This document provides tips for maximizing direct response fundraising at the end of the year. It discusses the importance of individual donors as a funding source and notes that organizations lose donors every month. It recommends engaging current donors to recruit new ones, soliciting internal audiences, and testing list rentals or trades. For lapsed donors, it suggests segmentation and personalized outreach. Specific tactics include regular mailings in November and December, reporting outcomes, analyzing past results, using holiday themes and response techniques, and acknowledging gifts meaningfully. The document concludes by providing contact information for the author.
Increasing the business with promotional giftsZoom4DailyLab
Gifts are loved by one and all. Gifts are a way of expressing gratitude and marketing gifts are given to customer to thank them and most of the customers are more than happy to receive gifts ...
The document provides tips for responding to leads and securing appointments. It recommends introducing yourself clearly with your name, role, and location. It also suggests asking high-impact, open-ended questions to learn how you can potentially help and be a resource for the other person. Finally, it advises spending minimal time setting up appointments and not launching into a sales pitch during the initial call.
This document discusses how to make a business meaningful by focusing on helping others rather than focusing on profits or sales. It emphasizes engaging with customers and hostesses at parties to make them feel special. It suggests asking questions to understand people's motivations for buying products or hosting parties. The goal is to convey that the business is about more than just sales and to share how it can help improve people's lives. Representatives are challenged to do one thing each week to put others first and make their business more meaningful.
Jessica Lin's manager provides a strong recommendation for her employment. The manager states that Jessica has impressed with her attitude and productivity as an assistant manager. She is bright, motivated, a quick learner who can digest large volumes of information and articulate it well with customers. Jessica was also effective in engaging promotions and developing new clients, particularly for large retailers. Her manager commends her willingness to take initiative, lead her team, and take risks to help the business. The manager recommends Jessica without reservation and is confident she will be productive.
This will depend on what type of loan you are taking and from whom you are taking it. If you are taking out a purchase loan, then you wouldn’t likely be able to take any cash out of the transaction.
Ten Slides in Ten Minutes - I Never Know What to Say to YouBill Graham CP.APMP
The document outlines 10 slides from a presentation on capturing the hearts and minds of prospects and clients. Each slide focuses on a different relationship such as business prospects, managers, partners, friends, mentors, parents, and children. For each relationship, the slide identifies key factors to focus on such as understanding needs, adding value, building trust, showing loyalty, and providing support. The overall message is about effectively communicating the value you can provide within different types of relationships.
Men have been offering endowments to ladies. Blessings show love and warmth and can likewise flag appreciation. Foremostly, endowments have likewise been utilized from the beginning of time to show abundance, achievement, and force. Trust me, when you become an extraordinary blessing provider, your status and attractive quality as a sentimental accomplice increment dramatically. The main thing ladies love more than getting a significant blessing is indicating it off to their desirous companions. Giving your life partner a blessing and it develops the glow, trust, love, and closeness in your relationship, and even builds her profound respect for you.
3 Key Elements for the Best Saint Valentine's GiftsHIM-Matchmaking
The idea of Saint Valentine’s is that you show your loved one you care about him or her.
Of course you already do that the other 364 days of the year too, however St. Valentine's offers you the extra opportunity to show your appreciation.
Gift giving is traditionally a big deal for St. Valentine's and your gifts should aim to make your partner feel appreciated and loved.
As a matchmaker and dating expert, I would like to share the 3 Key elements for the best St. Valentine’s day gifts.
Surprise your loved ones by sending their most admired birthday gifts in midnight at their entranceway step is that the smartest thing that you simply will present to them. Giftingdeal Offers midnight delivery of Cakes, Flowers in Delhi,
Gifting is an important part of Indian culture that is used to show love and strengthen relationships during celebrations like birthdays and festivals. However, choosing the perfect gift can be difficult as preferences vary between individuals. Giftingdeal aims to make gift selection easier by providing a wide range of options categorized by occasion, recipient's gender, and relationship to help customers find the most appropriate gift. They also offer a gift voucher option to let recipients select their own present.
This document provides tips and strategies for building an effective email marketing campaign, including growing an email list, generating sales through emails, nurturing customer relationships after sales, and maintaining list hygiene. It discusses techniques like using forms, offers, and social media to expand the email list, segmenting the list for targeted messaging, using scarcity and urgency in sales emails, and turning customers into advocates through ongoing communication. The overall message is that steady, consistent work focusing on one strategy at a time is key to email marketing success.
5 Coronavirus Fundraising Myths and Why They’ll Kill Your FundraisingBloomerang
https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/
Andrea Kihlstedt will offer a different view and give you some practical advice on how to use this topsy-turvy time to raise money.
Apresentação sobre Grandes Doações, por Eva Aldrich, da CFRE, realizada durante o Festival ABCR 2017, em São Paulo, entre os dias 17 e 19 de maio de 2017.
This document contains information from a presentation given at "She Said YYC - The Voice of Women & Philanthropy" on November 4, 2015 in Calgary, Alberta. It discusses various topics related to philanthropy including understanding one's relationship with money, different donor profiles, ways to get involved in social change through volunteering, donations, or strategic philanthropy, and factors to consider when making a donation such as governance, leadership, and financials. Contact information is provided for Gena Rotstein to learn more.
Fish Philosophy
It's all about the four practices which we can perform in our daily lives to achieve success and to move towards humanity.
Choose your attitude.
Play.
Make their day.
Be there.
It's a book written by Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul and John Christensen.
The document discusses common emotions experienced in the workplace such as fear, anger, envy, and pride. It defines each emotion and provides strategies for managing them. Fear is an unpleasant feeling of worry about something bad happening. Anger results from wrongdoing and can be turned inward causing depression. Pride refers to an inflated sense of status. Envy is a feeling of discontent from another's advantages. The document advises exposing yourself to fear, taking timeouts for anger, developing humility for pride, and stopping comparisons for envy. It concludes by encouraging awareness of emotions and understanding their sources.
This document discusses managing emotions in organizations. It provides an overview of various theories of emotion including the James-Lange theory, cognitive theories, and affective events theory. It also discusses emotional intelligence, different types of emotions like approach and deterrence emotions, and applications of understanding emotions in areas like decision making, motivation, leadership, and conflict resolution. Managing emotions in organizations is important for creating a healthy organizational climate and allowing for optimal performance.
This document discusses managing emotions at work and provides steps for mastering emotions. It notes that people often feel frustrated with bosses, upset with coworkers, and angry with customers. It recommends recognizing emotions, understanding that thoughts precede emotions, and accepting that changing feelings comes after the fact. Possible solutions include reconsidering harmful beliefs, keeping an emotion journal, talking to supportive friends, engaging in self-education, and seeking counseling. A nine-step process is outlined for managing emotions, thoughts, and behaviors through awareness, acceptance, identification, and goal-setting.
The document defines key concepts related to emotional intelligence including emotion, intelligence, and the three main models of emotional intelligence: ability model, mixed model, and trait model. The ability model focuses on perceiving, reasoning with, understanding, and managing emotions. The mixed model includes five factors: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. The trait model views emotional intelligence as self-perceptions of emotional abilities within a personality framework. The document provides details on each model and concludes that emotional intelligence incorporates knowing one's own feelings, using feelings to make good decisions, managing moods, staying motivated and optimistic, having empathy for others, and developing social skills.
The document discusses managing emotions. It provides questions and links to resources about emotions. Some key points include:
- Emotions influence learning and performance, with positive emotions associated with better outcomes and negative emotions hindering performance.
- Social and emotional intelligence involves understanding one's own and others' feelings and responding appropriately based on that awareness.
- Emotions drive decision making, with emotions like greed, fear, altruism, envy, pride and shame influencing whether and how quickly people make purchases and choices.
- Changing one's focus or perspective can alter emotional states, like focusing on smiling people when presenting to feel more confident, or being less optimistic to feel less anger. Managing emotions is important for well
Emotion is a complex psycho-physiological experience of an individual's state of mind as interacting with biochemical (internal) and environmental (external) influences.
James-Lange Theory:
The James-Lange theory of emotion argues that an event causes physiological arousal first and then we interpret this arousal. Only after our interpretation of the arousal can we experience emotion. If the arousal is not noticed or is not given any thought, then we will not experience any emotion based on this event.
EXAMPLE: You are walking down a dark alley late at night. You hear footsteps behind you and you begin to tremble, your heart beats faster, and your breathing deepens. You notice these physiological changes and interpret them as your body's preparation for a fearful situation. You then experience fear.
Cannon-Bard Theory:
EXAMPLE: You are walking down a dark alley late at night. You hear footsteps behind you and you begin to tremble, your heart beats faster, and your breathing deepens. At the same time as these physiological changes occur you also experience the emotion of fear.
Schachter-Singer Theory:
EXAMPLE: You are walking down a dark alley late at night. You hear footsteps behind you and you begin to tremble, your heart beats faster, and your breathing deepens. Upon noticing this arousal you realize that is comes from the fact that you are walking down a dark alley by yourself. This behavior is dangerous and therefore you feel the emotion of fear.
Facial Feedback Theory
EXAMPLE: You are walking down a dark alley late at night. You hear footsteps behind you and your eyes widen, your teeth clench and your brain interprets these facial changes as the expression of fear. Therefore you experience the emotion of fear.
Positive Emotions:
Love is a very basic and necessary emotion. If a child is nurtured in a loving family where all members respect and love each other, he or she will develop into an adult who behaves in a manner similar to the behavioral patterns that he or she learned as a child.
Negative Emotions:
If the child is raised in an atmosphere of anger and hostility, that child will develop into a very troubled adult who thinks that angry and hostile feelings are normal.
This document discusses emotions from several perspectives. It defines emotions as complex psychological phenomena involving feelings, expressions, and physiological arousal. Emotions are divided into primary emotions like love, joy, and fear, and secondary emotions like passion and irritation. Positive emotions include hope and confidence, while negative emotions include exhaustion and panic. Theories of emotion like the Cannon-Bard theory and James-Lange theory describe the relationship between physiological arousal and emotional experience. Emotional intelligence involves perceiving, reasoning with, understanding, and managing emotions.
Although the study of emotional intelligence is no longer a new topic, many people are still unaware of what EI is. This presentation provides clarification on the subject of emotional intelligence and includes several easy to understand definitions.
The document discusses emotions and emotional intelligence. It defines emotions as internal conscious states that involve feelings, bodily arousal, purposive motivation, and social expression. Emotions can be positive or negative, and are influenced by factors like personality, culture, stress, age, and environment. The document also discusses emotional labor, where workers must display certain emotions as part of their job. Additionally, it defines emotional intelligence as the ability to identify, assess, and manage one's own emotions and the emotions of others. Emotional intelligence involves self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. The document argues that emotional intelligence can lead to advantages like greater productivity and better conflict resolution.
Emotional intelligence involves the ability to monitor one's own emotions and understand others' emotions to guide thinking and behavior. It has two main components - personal competence, which includes self-awareness and managing emotions, and social competence, which involves empathy and relationship management. Developing emotional intelligence is important as it determines success and happiness more than IQ. It is a journey that starts with understanding one's own feelings and recognizing that all feelings are tools that can be used to build a meaningful life.
This document provides tips for fully activating an existing professional network to generate new business leads. It recommends asking current ideal clients and fans to refer potential new clients who fit the same profile. When talking to contacts, focus on success stories about helping clients rather than complaints. Approach clients and prospects with helpful gifts like referrals to other trusted professionals, potential job leads for their connections, or useful articles on topics relevant to their needs and interests. The goal is to strengthen relationships by demonstrating care for contacts beyond just seeking their business.
Finding the Perfect Clients was a webinar offered by FreelancingSuccess.com. In this session, I talk about how to define the perfect client and then how to find them for your freelancing business.
- The document provides advice and reminders for financial advisors, including tips on prospecting, client relationships, fees, expectations, and market volatility.
- Some key points are to embrace change, not overpromise which destroys relationships, become friends with clients, choose optimism, understand that advice is difficult to sell, and manage client expectations.
- It emphasizes the importance of client service, communication, and focusing on the client's goals and needs above all else.
As part of RE/MAX Realty Advantage's commitment to reaching out and serving the entire real estate community, our Director of Agent Development, Shauna Zamarripa teaches a class specifically on how to generate leads using referrals as a source of business. This series is deigned to introduce concepts, provide examples and to assist real estate agents in creating their own blended marketing model that works for them. Shauna teaches webinars on this content regularly because having the information is great, but getting more than just the information is even better. For more, visit www.281advantage.net
The document provides 19 tips for expressing gratitude to employees, vendors, customers, and others in business. Some key tips include:
1) Thank employees and vendors specifically for the work or actions they took, rather than general praise.
2) Handwritten thank you notes are meaningful because they are rare in the digital age.
3) Make sure gratitude is genuine - insincere praise will not be appreciated.
4) Consider gifts, discounts, or events to show appreciation beyond just words.
How To Create A Loyal Tribe of Repeat CustomersJon Brome
This article teaches the average home business owner and shows them how to turn one-off customers into loyal evangelists of their product and services.
We've heard it over and over and over again, "The Money is in the Follow Up!" and then what do we do?
Sometimes we Follow Up and sometimes we don't. It's all about building business relationships that really work. If your structure for follow up is shaky then your business is shaky. Of all the elements that go into creating the kind of business relationship that leads to referrals and sales, follow up is listed as #1 by Harvard Business School.
Obviously YOU are the only one in the way. Maybe you have tried some things and have just never found a system that really really worked. DON'T WORRY! We have it for you. Join us on November 5 to learn the secret steps that if done - over and over again - will create the steady business results you are looking for.
9 ways of networking final by Rashi GuptaRashi Gupta
The document provides tips for networking effectively and generating interest from potential clients. It advises describing how your services can benefit clients by meeting their needs. It also recommends following up with leads in a genuine way, such as sending relevant articles, and expressing appreciation through thank you notes to build strong business relationships.
The document provides tips for networking effectively and maximizing opportunities from interactions with potential clients and contacts. It advises tailoring communications to emphasize how one's services can benefit others, offering initial consultations for free to determine fit, keeping referral sources on hand, following up consistently with new contacts, and expressing appreciation and gratitude to build relationships.
The document discusses strategies for businesses to build customer loyalty and referral business during slow economic times. It recommends focusing on building relationships through consistent personal touches like invitations, newsletters, rewards programs and special offers. Referencing studies, it emphasizes that customer retention is more profitable than always pursuing new customers, and that perceived indifference is the top reason customers defect. The key strategies outlined are to build loyalty through experiences and clubs; treat B2B customers as partners; take charge of your brand image through consistency; and partner with other businesses.
The document provides tips for businesses to prepare for the holidays and new year, including contacting clients and staff to express appreciation, decluttering the office by donating unused items to charity, recognizing staff achievements, nominating a green initiative for the coming year, buying a present for the business, paying bills early, doing charitable work, inviting children to visit the workplace, meeting local business neighbors, delegating tasks, maintaining exercise routines, and considering hiring a business coach.
The document provides advice from a marketing manager to their agency partners on how to best serve clients and win business. Some key points include: take a genuine interest in clients' problems rather than just selling your own credentials; expose clients to new ideas and help them learn; spend time in clients' organizations to better understand their business; and align your agency's success with your clients' success by linking compensation to client metrics. The overall message is that agencies should focus on truly understanding and helping their clients rather than just completing tasks.
Fostering an entrepreneurial climate is important for business success. Key aspects include identifying support networks of financial backers, coaches, and friends/family. It is also important to obtain input from investors, customers, employees and others to gain different perspectives. Business owners should be inclusive, communicative, honest, and positive to maintain trust and support from those invested in the business. Regular updates and meetings help keep everyone informed and feeling involved.
Accelerate sales success by finding the perfect match for your business! The concept of an Ideal Customer Profile can be revolutionary for executives who have assumed that all business is good business. The exercise of pinpointing the best clients can dramatically improve sales results and amplify business growth.
Without meeting in person, it's a little more challenging to establish an instant connection with a client, but building trust remotely is very much doable and critical to the long-term success of the relationship.
So how do you build trust? Consistent communication and setting up expectations from the beginning of the relationship.
A client should never have to wonder what you're doing for them and when. When they start to wonder what's going on it's because you haven't communicated with them appropriately and you haven't clarified expectations. Don't do this. This is by far, the biggest mistake in client relationship building.
Read on to learn our best tips and recommendations for building remote client relationships with your team!
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience